[Essay] An Artist and His Muse
/Ken Rollins, President of Rollins Fine Art and PMA Director (1981-1994), explores the life and inspiration of artist William Schaaf.
Read MoreKen Rollins, President of Rollins Fine Art and PMA Director (1981-1994), explores the life and inspiration of artist William Schaaf.
Read MoreExperience Chagall: Stories into Dreams as an audio tour. Look for the numbered prompts on the wall and on the identification labels.
This September, Chagall arrives at the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College.
Read MoreThis September, the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College proudly presents The Art of Romaine Brooks, a retrospective exhibition of a remarkable and under-acknowledged 20th century American artist.
Read MoreThe Von Wagner Code is a unique Polk Museum of Art curated exhibition inspired by the rediscovery of a damaged, long-lost painting on the Florida Southern College campus and the exciting search for answers about its origins.
Read MoreRead more on the exhibition, Double Vision: Photocentric Paintings by Richard Heipp.
Read MoreRead more on the exhibition, Lorrie Goulet: Seventy Years Carving.
Read MoreMasters of Spain: Goya and Picasso brings a rare showcase of work by two of the greatest Spanish painters of all time. Experience this exhibition as an audio tour.
Read MoreIn keeping with our mission to offer incomparable world-class art experiences for the community, this exhibition brings to Polk County a rare showcase of work by two of the greatest Spanish painters of all time.
Read MorePainting A Nation: Hudson River School Landscapesfrom the Higdon Collection was organized by the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina.
Read MoreIn this exhibition of selected works from the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College’s permanent collection, we will explore the concept of what it means to call something an American work of art.
Read MoreLong a household name, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is considered to be one of the great nineteenth-century masters.
Read MoreIn most official art historical accounts of American art, it is not until the 1940s that American art found and identifiable home-grown style with the advent of Abstract Expressionism.
Read MoreLong a household name, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is considered to be one of the great nineteenth-century masters.
Read MoreFaces in the Crowd is the second in a series of exhibitions showcasing the latest acquisitions of figurative American art in the collection of the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College (FSC).
Read MoreThe current exhibition, "Faces in the Crowd," is composed of a selection of the newest collection of Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College’s latest acquisitions of figurative American art. In order to display many of the works, our curatorial team choose to use the salon style hang. But what is the origin of the salon style hang?
Read MoreQ&A with artist Jason Myers about his exhibition STATUS: fluid | dynamic.
Read MoreCollections Manager and Registrar Loren Hicks photographs a piece of art from the Polk Museum of Art's Asian art collection.
Read MoreRembrandt van Rijn founded the most influential Academy that ever existed in the Dutch Republic (1581-1795), training dozens of painters to work in the “Rembrandtesque” manner.
Read MoreThe Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida